Re: [MiNT] ext2 error

[Guido Flohr <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de>]

Hi,

On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 02:43:05PM +0100, Konrad M. Kokoszkiewicz wrote:
> Quite irritating though, if you are developing something that needs many
> reboots (examples: MiNT kernel, shutdown program :-)). I can't understand,
> why the fsck thinks it should check a partition, even when the partition
> has been cleanly unmounted, the system has been closed properly, and the
> fsck was not ASKED to do anything. Yet on the 'maximum mount count
> exceeded' case, the checker never finds any errors. I could accept it in a
> developer version of the fsck or ext2fs, but as for the user version this
> approach smells much like Microsoft Windows:

On my Linux box the checker occasionally found errors when doing the
maximum mount count check.

Yes, you are right, there should be a mechanism like /etc/fastboot to
avoid filesystem checks at boot time.  I don't know if Frank sees his way
to implement that.

Ciao

Guido
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